My analysis of events has also lead me to conclude the same.
It was Dick Cheney who called for someone to be sent to Africa to check his "smoking cake" out - and the person recommended -- by Valerie Plame, was Wilson. Cheney was aware of all of these facts.
But Dick didn't like what Wilson had to say, and dismissed his negative report. And when Wilson called the administration to task by publically discounting the yellow cake allegation -- Dick set out to neutralize him in very strong-armed fashion. That's opinion. Here's speculation: Was Plame being punished as well? As a spy specializing in WMDs, maybe she wasn't telling Dick what he wanted, and he saw an opportunity to get two spies with one stone.
Justin Raimondo of AntiWar.com writes today
"MSNBC'S Buchanan & Press scored a major scoop on Wednesday, all but unmasking the high government official who "outed" a CIA operative via a July 14 column by Robert Novak. Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who worked with Valerie Plame, the reported agent, all but identified "Scooter" Libby as the government official who outed her – and at least one other in the Vice President's office.
Who is "Scooter" Libby?
He's the nexus of the neocon network in Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and assistant to the President, whose office is the operational nerve center of the War Party. It is Libby and Cheney who made repeated trips to the CIA, pressuring them to accept tall tales of Al Qaeda connections and assorted "weapons of mass destruction" supposedly lurking in Baghdad – including the Niger-uranium yellowcake "evidence" that Iraq had acquired fissionable material for a nuclear weapon."
more at
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jspecial100203.htmlI have been predicting Cheney will resign for a couple of months. I also predict that he will be replaced on the ticket by Condi Rice, in an almost incredibly cynical ploy to win over black and women voters by giving them an opportunity to vote for a first in American history -- a black woman VP.